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In basketball terms an icon is someone who changes the game. In my lifetime only two people did that, one of them is A.I
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you deal with emotions differently man. What has Kobe done to you? What does me having Bob as my avy have anything to do with this?
The definition of an icon is not your little diatribe of what you think Kobe isn't. Here is the webster definition which I am sure you are going to say you don't give a damn about to justify your stance. http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/icon
You literally make no sense when you say Kobe is not an icon. Notice I never denied Iverson being an icon because I looked up to homie too. I saw Iverson at 6 flags and nobody gave a damn except for a few. Kobe was downtown at Gallery place and dude was mobbed by all sorts of people. Rachet hood rats, corporate people.....it was a scene. All this garbage about him being an imitation and replica is all the emotions you have about Kobe. Let it go. People know him by one name across the world. If you watched the Olympics and he touched the ball, the crowds got loud and they went crazy every time he scored.
In basketball terms an icon is someone who changes the game. In my lifetime only two people did that, one of them is A.I
Na I was too young at that point in time. MJwho would you say is the other? Magic?
Iverson had a pretty good career though but Him being an ICON is a false statement. Iverson wasnt close to being a icon.
i always looked at AI as an icon... his career speaks for itself in terms of his scoring, productivity, & impact on the court (especially at his height) & off the court his influence was always strong (from his sneakers, to people rocking the arm sleeve, etc). his impact on & off the court was enough to look at him as an icon.
played with one of these dudes yesterday. He could actually ball but dribbled at least a good 5 minutes before every shot, didn't even know these dudes still existedHe also taught just about every sub six foot dude at any given spot to play ball at to be ball hogs too, no matter how much they suck, no matter that they lose games by singlehandedly killing whatever team they're on, no matter having little to no basketball IQ and to call their state of eternal fail "heart" with as much false swag as possible.
played with one of these dudes yesterday. He could actually ball but dribbled at least a good 5 minutes before every shot, didn't even know these dudes still existed
Some of them can play, the problem is that they either:
A) Aren't as good as they think they are
B) Can play but either flat out kill the team because they have no or little basketball IQ, especially since they either don't pass or will pass only to who they're cool with rather than to who's open. They can also get really bad when it comes to taller teammates who also can play, especially if they're better than they are, which usually is the case. That's usually because of they're jealous.
C) Have Russell Westbrook syndrome. They're good but when they screw up, they make game killing mistakes that stem from subpar/no basketball IQ. Then they blame the team or a teammate rather than man up, take the blame for what their part, and not do it again.
D) All of the above
There's no such thing as a perfect player but these dudes are horrible since point guards have so much access to the ball and the first person you meet on defense. If you've a idiot, ballhog, a bum, or a hybrid of these running the show on your team, you're basically polishing brass on the Titanic.
The main problem is tunnel vision. These dudes focus solely on their defender and crossing them and most the time don't even have their head up. This probably the first time I've came across this type of player in about 7 years. That street ball **** faded fast
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some icon...
dude's gonna be remembered for his rant and not what he did on the court
He set himself up with that. Thing is, the rest of the rant was even stupider and crazier than that:
Reporter: "Could you clear about your practicing habits since we can't see you practice?"
Iverson: "If Coach tells you that I missed practice, then that's that. I may have missed one practice this year but if somebody says he missed one practice of all the practices this year, then that's enough to get a whole lot started. I told Coach Brown that you don't have to give the people of Philadelphia a reason to think about trading me or anything like that. If you trade somebody, you trade them to make the team better...simple as that. I'm cool with that. I'm all about that. The people in Philadelphia deserve to have a winner. It's simple as that. It goes further than that.
Reporter: "So you and coach Brown got caught up on Saturday about practice?"
Iverson: "If I can't practice, I can't practice. It is as simple as that. It ain't about that at all. It's easy to sum it up if you're just talking about practice. We're sitting here, and I'm supposed to be the franchise player, and we're talking about practice. I mean listen, we're sitting here talking about practice, not a game, not a game, not a game, but we're talking about practice. Not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game last it's my last but we're talking about practice man. How silly is that?
Now I know that I'm supposed to lead by example and all that but I'm not shoving that aside like it don't mean anything. I know it's important, I honestly do but we're talking about practice. We're talking about practice man. (laughter from the media crowd) We're talking about practice. We're talking about practice. We're not talking about the game. We're talking about practice. When you come to the arena, and you see me play, you've seen me play right, you've seen me give everything I've got, but we're talking about practice right now. (more laughter)
Reporter: "But it's an issue that your coach continues to raise?"
Iverson: "Hey I hear you, it's funny to me to, hey it's strange to me too but we're talking about practice man, we're not even talking about the game, when it actually matters, we're talking about practice."
Reporter: "Is it possible that if you practiced, not you but you would make your teammates better?"
Iverson: "How in the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?
Reporter: "So they can be used to playing with you."
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some icon...
dude's gonna be remembered for his rant and not what he did on the court
they gonna find something to assassinate your character even if it's petty or false when you are the best player in the leaguesome icon...
dude's gonna be remembered for his rant and not what he did on the court